Data from May saw a drop of 22-per-cent in overdose deaths from the prior month with experts saying it isn’t easy to pick one reason to credit the decline to
In May , 72 Alberta ns died of overdoses, a drop of 22-per-cent from the month before, when 92 people died. And a 55-per-cent decrease from May last year, when 161 people overdosed and died from opioids.
of opioid overdoses, nearly double the number of the year before. And by last year, that number had soared to a record 1,867 people.In the first five months of this year, Alberta is reporting 431Falling numbers are something everyone should be cheering for, especially as the epidemic, concentrated in Alberta’s two biggest cities, has challenged health and civic officials desperate for a solution.
“Alberta is focused on expanding access to the treatment and recovery services we know save lives. We have now opened three recovery communities, with eight more on the way – a record-breaking expansion to long-term addiction treatment services in Alberta,” he said.
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